For
many years, Paulo and Mayka have been working in international
circuses, musicals, ballets and operas and with Frisian-horses
they Qualify theirs self in mime, clowning, acrobatic, juggling
,animals, entertainment and steet theatre, . In l99O, however,
having acquired a wealth of experience, they decided to start
for their own. This was done and Holland's smallest circus
was born. Not a real circus, though, circus-theatre would
be a better term. To the notion of theatre, the two give
a highly personal interpretation. They work a lot with living
animals and put on very multifaceted shows. Beside the circus
theatre, they practice street theatre, animation's, interludes,
puppet shows, platform acts, and they organize trainings
for young and old. Mayka performs a nice fairy-like puppet
show, but she is, at the same time, an actress and an acrobat
and she knows her way about in the world of dressage. In
her entr'acts she is assertive and coquettish, chatty and
rude, but then she may also be very sweet. Paulo, who initially
was a furniture maker, is now as many-sided as is Mayka.
When playing a mime clown, he is clumsy and inept, ponder
ate and inscrutable. But that same Paulo can also be a smooth
customer, a smirk on his face, in a glittering suit, or an
agile acrobat and a skilful animal trainer. Paulo en Mayka
make theatre because they like it. Adult theatre, that is
very accessible to children, child theatre, that adults may
easily get completely merged in. Animalsoap The sun rises
in the East: a new day is dawning. Merrily, Daan and Dirkje
lay the table. ut when, after having said their prayers,
they fetch the breadbasket, it proves to be all empty.

They
never were rich in their hurnble life, but this time they are
flat broke and starvation lies in wait for them. Daan and Dirkje,
surrounded by their animals, are stricken with grief. They
look for a way out and pray for a solution. Eventually, however,
selling their beloved animals seems to be the only way out
of their difficulties. But it is the hardest decision they
have ever had to take in their whole life. Starvation and death,
or the renunciation of their only valuable possessions... But
then the horses and the dogs, the duck and the goat, the pig,
the rabbit and the sheep turn out to have their own ideas.
They don't take things for granted and follow their own initiative
.Paulo,
Mayka, Willy, Wendy, Daan and Dirkje, all of them are ready
to play for you. Single or as a couple, with or without a dog.
They welcome people, inaugurate an art gallery, open a new
building, check up things, or kindly show their way to those
who want to know it. Alienating, relaxing, queer. But at the
same time playful, light-hearted or, on the contrary, with
a solemn pitch. "Among people" is a determinative element,
joyful or serious, of the atmosphere and fits in well with
festivals, inaugurations, dinners, parties, or with any other
occasion. The short acts give an unofficial touch to an official
event. Discreet and unobtrusive, but never unnoticed.